On The Money: Passports, uncharted rocks, road love and more ...

On The Money: Passports, uncharted rocks, road love and more ...
Grocery Commissioner Pierre van Heerden – not a man to be mucked about. (Image:NZME)
Pattrick Smellie
The commissioner’s not for turning If you doubt whether South African-born Pierre van Heerden is tough enough to break up the local supermarket duopoly, the following tale of his recent journey home to bury his late father may be instructive.The supermarket regulator spent a tense hour in a small, dirty backroom at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, less than fresh from a 15-hour flight, where six immigration officers grilled him in the close confines. “They insisted that I either show a South African passport...

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